Reuben Foster's father arrested after 16 years on the run

Friday

Feb 8, 2013 at 4:08 PM

U.S. Marshals Spokesman Scott Sides says 41-year-old Danny Foster was captured Friday in Miami. The man was originally arrested in Randolph County, Ala. after he allegedly shot his estranged wife who was holding their 18-month-old son Reuben Foster. Authorities say the boy was also wounded in his back.

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Authorities have arrested a man who escaped from a jail in eastern Alabama in 1996 and had been on the run since then.

U.S. Marshals Spokesman Scott Sides says 41-year-old Danny Foster, who CBS 42 identified as the father of University of Alabama football signee Reuben Foster, was captured Friday in Miami. The man was originally arrested in Randolph County after he allegedly shot his estranged wife, Inita Berry Paige, who was holding their 18-month-old son, Reuben Foster. Authorities say the boy was also wounded in his back.

He was wanted on charges of assault, shooting into an occupied dwelling and escape.

“Foster had been on the run for a while now and this investigation to apprehend him is an example of what can result when tenacious investigators from different agencies work together to get a violent offender behind bars,” said Arthur Baylor, a U.S. Marshal with Alabama's Middle District in a release.

Danny Foster was indicted by a Randolph County grand jury in 1996 and fled the state before being arrested in California. Sides says he was extradited to Randolph County and escaped from the county jail in December of 1996.

Foster had taken on a new identity and denied being Danny Foster when arrested, according to a release from the U.S. Marshals service. Only after he was fingerprinted did Foster acknowledge his true identity.

According to a report by CBS' Miami affiliate, Foster was living under the name Jefferson McClendon and is wanted for questioning in a 1997 Alabama homicide.

Sides says Foster took on a new identity in Miami and will again be extradited to Randolph County.